Oh hey. :)
It's been quite an interesting week so far.
Okay lets blog about the interviews first. Hahahah, I had two interviews on the SAME day. Pfft. Dentistry and later Medicine. Background information: I suck at interviews, no seriously. The last time I had an interview (okay so maybe the first time as well), I just broke down and cried. Freak. :/ And in the end (it was part of the prefect selection process), a prefect who was there had to go to the toilet and calm me down. .__. Okay but it was quite embarrassing and terrible. I just panicked when Mr Suresh scolded me for spinning my chair. Apparently I was. So yeah, I knew I really needed to depend on God this time. Okay, everytime. Hahahah but especially this time. I didn't really pray for His divine intervention to let me into Med/Dentistry. But I knew I needed His peace (so I won't break down and cry) and His wisdom (so that I don't offend anyone and get scolded and panic and cry) Hahaha so yes. All I wanted was actually to be able to really do my best during the interview without crying and show them who I am. I was really paranoid about history repeating itself. HAHAHA.
And fine, so I prayed that He'll let me get into Med/Dentistry IF IT WAS HIS WILL FOR ME. (yes important words in CAPS)HAHAHAHA. I tried the wheedling method at first. :p
'Please God. Let me into Medicine. I'd enter the mission field if you call me to. I'll be obedient.'
HAHAHAHAH. Okay but yeah. I just spammed my closer friends who were Christians to pray for me. Thank you so much, Sharmaine, Terence, Zhiqi, Ivyna, Tammie, Wanxuan, Rachel, Yiwen, Auntie Sarah, Dorcas and Ruth. (: Our prayers were answered!!!! I didn't cry.
Okay WAIT. I kinda cried abit but not because I panicked. But I guess I got kinda emotional when I was talking about the reasons why I wanted to be in this line. Oops. .__. I did that twice during the first panel interview k. :/
But they were super nice. I had five different doctors for my Med interview. 3 for the first panel, 2 for the second. My first panel was super friendly and funny!! Hahahah, got asked a few tough questions like what healthcare issue do you think the Minister of Health is worried about. I should've mentioned the aging population. But in the end I kept talking about the healthcare system, to which he stopped me. Quite happy though, they said they could see my strength and asked for my weakness instead. .__. Idk what strength did I show them though. Hopefully its what they're looking for. My second panel was slightly tougher. The doctor on the left kept insisting that if I were to be really passionate about making a change, I could be a policymaker/spokesperson (?) and do stuff about poverty. Bahhhhh. I think I said sth lame like I like Science. Pfft. But they were still nice. :) Oh did I mention, the lady sitting ouside and handling the registration is super nice. She came over to tell me 'Good luck' at least six times. Hahahaha quite funny. I was like smiling and smiling, 'Oh okay, thanks!!!' HAHAHAH SO MANY TIMES K.
But yeah. Thank God really. For the nice panels, for the reassurances. I was super calm while at the waiting room, or rather, corridor. Okay so I felt the physical part of the nerves, my heart thumping really hard in my chest. But my head was completely clear and really relaxed. So thank God so much.
And my Dentistry interview. Well got a nice panel of 3 Dentists. And in the morning my Dad told me to read a ST article before I left about oral health. And the writer of that article turned out to be Dr Sum Chee Peng who was one of my interviewers!!! Hahahah okay but he never really smiled much. Maybe one or twice only. Hahaha. But I think I did okay. They asked some weird strange questions because I told them some weird strange recollection of us as primary school kids having to line up and brush our teeth along the row of sinks. Then they said they had to squat by the drains back in their time. And later asked me why MOH decided to stop this practice although it proved to help a lot in our oral health. Hahahah. Omg I was like guessing that maybe too many children fell into the drains so they decided it was dangerous. HAHAHA OMG. FACEPALM MOMENT. And when they asked me where water in the drains flowed to, I said, Er Singapore RIver. OHGOSH. Sigh totally fail. But I also rattled off something about NEWater. HAHAHAHA. I had no idea what I was thinking. But it was quite fun la. It turned out that water from the drains flowed into the reservoir which meant that the public was worried about overaccumulation of bacteria in the water system there, blah blah. Which is actually unproven! So yeah. Hahahah quite fun la. It wasn't as bad as I thought. At some point the lady even said that I had a good attitude. Hahahah.
Oh well. But in the end, it's all God's will. Especially since I'll need all five approvals for Med and all three approvals for Dentistry before I can get in to either. For now, I'll just thank God for His presence during the interviews and that I was given the faith to trust in Him. :)
